Christopher Palmero

Companion Post to Bonus Show 25.

In the Road to BSC segment in the latest Bonus Show, I mentioned my old Marcionite Scriptures website and I also said that I would post the New Testament dating timeline from my Defender of Peace blog. 

The attached pics show the Marcionite Scriptures homepage. In the fourth pic, if you scroll down to the parag...

BSC After Dark 25: Churchfails Part Two; Completion of Road to BSC.

Presenting the January 2024 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we complete the Road to Born in the Second Century as well as the review of the book Churchfails. In the Churchfails segment, we cover Saturninus, the Montanists, the Ebionites, and the Quartodecimans.

This episode is i...

Born in the Second Century Announces YouTube Channel.

Currently I'm working on Churchfails Part 2, but I also began uploading full BSC episodes to the YouTube channel at the attached link. If you are interested in YouTube, and watching or listening to videos thereon, please consider subscribing to this channel.

The videos are only an audio recording with a waveform and gra...

BSC After Dark 24: Churchfails. Part One.

Presenting the December 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we begin reviewing the infamous book "Churchfails."

This episode is in MP3 format.

2 Free Months for Existing Patrons.

Chris, a called Apostle by God's Grace, to the Community of Readers: greetings.

I will be turning off billing for the 01/01/24 and 02/01/24 cycles, which means that 2 forthcoming Bonus Shows (December and January) will be a free gift, similar to the salvation that we all receive through Christ's blood in the grace of th...

BSC After Dark 23: Messianic Secret and Road to BSC.

Presenting the November 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which we examine the Messianic Secret, and travel further along the Road to BSC.

This episode is in MP3 format.

BSC After Dark 22: It's a Secret to Everyone.

Presenting the October 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, an exploration of the Secret Gospel of Mark, and the arguments for and against its authenticity.

Note: The host reads Clement's Letter to Theodore in its entirety in this Episode. There are no chapter divisions available on the Patreon pla...

BSC After Dark 21: Commentary on BSC Episode 20.

Presenting the September 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, a full commentary on Episode 20 of Born in the Second Century (the Apologetics Parody).

In going through Episode 20 in detail, the host also discusses topics of interest including: whether J. Warner Wallace's conversion story makes sense...

Shared document (show notes) + Release updates + Audience participation.

First, thank you very much to all the new members.

I just finished recording Episode 33; it's a fairly long one that looks to be about 2:10 or 2:15 or so in total. Quitting smoking/vaping on August 26 (after 21 years) made my September about as barren of activity as the First Century is of written Christian sources. It ...

Document shared: Gospel of John per R. Bultmann

Apologies for the lateness of this. I actually felt mostly normal today, which is good, so I completed Version 1 of the Gospel of John reconstruction.

I've done about 20 - 30 mock-ups of commentators' reconstructions of things like the sources of the Gospels, or Paul's letters, or the Evangelion. Rudolf Bultmann's recon...

BSC After Dark 20: At Home with Q.

Presenting the August 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, on the Synoptic Problem.

The host's reasons for accepting the Two-Source Hypothesis and the Q Source are discussed. The host also explains why he does not believe that Luke used Matthew's Gospel as a source.

This episode is in MP3 for...

BSC After Dark 19: Question and Answer (Q&A), Volume One.

Presenting the July 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, which is the first Q&A (Questions and Answers) installment.

Listener questions include: potential threats to the BSC Hypothesis, Ye Olde Bible Readings, the Criterion of Embarrassment, the Mandaeans, the host's favorite NT texts, what mak...

July Bonus Show to Be Released within a Day. August 2023 Schedule.

I've just finished the editing of the July Bonus Show (Q&A) and sent it for mastering; I expect to get it back tomorrow and to upload the show then. I apologize for the delay which was due to illness last week (as I will explain on the show and which you might also be able to tell somewhat from my voice on the track). I w...

Document shared: Gospel of Mark Triharmonium.

One of the questions received for the Q&A Show was about the Q hypothesis. I used that as motivation to finish a project that I've been putting off for some time, which is to create an annotated Gospel of Mark that shows when Matthew and Luke follow Mark's order.

In looking at the Markan redaction parts, I think the...

BSC After Dark 18: Matthew's Birth Narrative.

Presenting the June 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host presents an analysis of the Birth Narrative in Matthew's Gospel.

The episode presents, as a starting point, Raymond Brown's analysis of the Birth Narrative in Matthew as being a composite story. From there, the focus is plac...

Document shared: Justin's Gospel.

I'm sharing a new document for Patrons, but before going into that I wanted to mention that listeners Todd, Dan, and others have mentioned the possibility of a Q&A Bonus Show. It seems like a good idea so if anyone has any questions they would like to be answered, they can post them in the comments or message me on here, ...

BSC June 2023 Schedule

For June of 2023:

The Main Episode will be on JUSTIN MARTYR'S ALLEGED USE OF THE GOSPELS.

The Bonus Show will be on MATTHEW'S BIRTH NARRATIVE, AND ROAD TO BSC PART 3 OF 4.

Bonus Materials to be issued this month include my master note on Justin's alleged use of the Gospels, which includes all of his "Gospel-...

Gospel of Matthew, Working Copy

In addition to the monthly Bonus Shows, I wanted to also start sharing more of my show preparation materials, and so over time I'll be posting more of my so-called "Working Copies," which, for the New Testament, are based on the NASB.

I remember having a book called "The Bible With Sources Revealed" that color-coded the...

BSC After Dark 17: Close Reading of Mark Chapter One.

Presenting the May 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host risks an attempt at a close reading of Mark Chapter One.

The episode begins with observations about the Opening Skit from BSC Episode 29, and is followed by a discussion of the major pericopes in Mark 1, with a focus on late ...

BSC After Dark 16. Road to BSC and Second Century Problems.

Presenting the April 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host continues the Road to Born in the Second Century. In this installment the host's ill-fated foray into doctrinaire Catholicism is covered, as well as his introduction to Gnosticism.   

The second half of the show i...

BSC After Dark 15. Road to BSC and Preaching of Peter.

Presenting the March 2023 installment of Born in the Second Century After Dark, in which the host presents a new recurring segment: The Road to Born in the Second Century, in which the background of the podcast is discussed. Today's segment covers the host's earliest childhood and the travails of being a youth in Catholic CCD...

A "Thank You" for your patience.

While I do plan to put out bonus shows in January, I wanted to thank you for bearing with me over the past few months by pausing payments through March 1, 2023. This doesn't mean that anything is changing with the show, but that I wanted to thank you for bearing with my shaky release schedule these past few m...

BSC After Dark 14. Bart (Ehrman)'s Nightmare 6: Papias and the Gospel Origins Invitational.

The next "non-gospel" source presented by Bart Ehrman in "Did Jesus Exist" is the infamous Papias. He considers Papias an independent source for the Historical Jesus because Papias does not appear to be getting his information about Jesus from the New Testament gospels. Therefore, host Chris Palmero presents the "Gospel Origi...

Upcoming BSC Shows

A brief update on the planned shows over the next two weeks or so.

This week I'll be doing the Patreon show for the next installment of the Ehrman series. It's about Papias, but Bart Ehrman really doesn't give us much on Papias to work with, so it'll be my responsibility to inject sufficient Papias into the Papias show....

BSC After Dark 13. Bart (Ehrman)'s Nightmare 4: First Clement(e).

The response to Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" continues, with an overview of his next "non-gospel" source for Jesus: the gigantic, fraudulent imposition knows as the First Letter of Clement.

The topics discussed include, viz.: whether Clement's Jesus sayings are taken from a written source; why the traditional argume...

BSC After Dark 12. Bart (Ehrman)'s Nightmare 4: The Letters of Ignatius.

In this bonus show, we continue our miniseries on Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" with today's focus being the (fake) letters of Ignatius. To what extent can these monstrous fabrications be considered "an independent witness" to the Historical Jesus?

The topics to be discussed include, viz.: how and why Ignatius compli...

BSC After Dark 11. On the Opening Readings (One through Four).

In this bonus show we begin a new recurring miniseries on the Opening Readings of the Born in the Second Century episodes. Here, the readings for Episodes 1 through 4 are revisited and illuminated.

Other topics are also discussed, viz.: my list of possible ideas for the first few episodes; how the concept of "Opening Re...

New BSC Episodes This Week.

I wanted to thank everyone for their patience as we resume our schedule after a hectic month. This week, I'll be recording Episode 25 as well as Bonus Show 11. My plan is to release these by the end of this week. 

I had started preparing Episode 25 intending to follow the formula established in Episode 24, where we...

BSC After Dark 10. Part 3 of Bart (Ehrman)'s Nightmare: Did Jesus Exist?

There's no main episode this month, but the bonus shows continue as host Chris Palmero progresses further into Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist." In this installment, Ehrman covers the gospels as sources for Jesus, and also has somewhat to say about oral tradition. 

We'll talk about his magical and ultra-radical mult...